kokorodoko wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:02 pm

jfv wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:11 am You may recognize my initials.

Glad you decided to stick around. Hope whatever is going on is going on fine.

I have ups and downs like everyone and have almost always been able to manage the downs okay. The first week of this year was a shitshow for me, though. Making matters worse, my tendency to self-loathe kicked into high gear; just about anything I was reading online, including on here, I was taking the wrong way.

Anyway, my situation has improved and I've learned a few things along the way. Thanks for your concern.

Probably come to die on the board, lived here my whole life.

Can't remember how I got here but I was a teenager at the time and am 36 now which seems pretty nuts. Probably some Big Black related thing got me here, then I learned a lot from lurking for a few years, then signed up and sporadically posted. I can't remember if I signed up before or after buying my Merkur razor. I'm from Denton, TX, spent a year in Denver, and been in Chicago for 6 or so years now.

Joined the old forum around 2005. Posted rarely, tried to keep the batting average high. I don't naturally create a lot of content.

Interned at Electrical in 2006 for college credit. It was a tremendous experience.

I truly loved the old forum. I read it daily for more than a decade. There seemed to be a tone change a few years back that started to turn me off, but the new mood seems good. As aforementioned, the misogyny was subtle but pervasive. I am a dude, but don't really like being around a bunch of dudes, there's always some bullshit to wade through.

Happy to be reading insightful and hilarious shit on the reg again.

Also, I'm in the years-long process of turning a 6000 sq ft (about 550 sq meters) church built in 1876 into a recording studio. I should post some photos one of these days.

danielruder wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:56 am I'm in the years-long process of turning a 6000 sq ft (about 550 sq meters) church built in 1876 into a recording studio. I should post some photos one of these days.

That sounds like a cool, awesome project. Start a thread!

Hi!

I used to post as Tommy Alpha, but I forgot my password. So now I've got this name, but I haven't really posted at all.

Hi!

strontiumtom wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 11:26 am Hi!

I used to post as Tommy Alpha, but I forgot my password. So now I've got this name, but I haven't really posted at all.

Hi!

I first came here after seeing the ad "Fluss is better than Strom Thurmond." I think it ran in The Reader or the Onion.
I chose my dumb name when I thought I was being a wise guy. I'm not.
I used to post more often, but learned that I was not very good at communicating what was in my pea brain.

My band played at the PRF 2010 Auktoberfest at Quenchers and I realized how much better the other bands on the bill were.
On my phone, I have recording of The Hype doing live band karaoke that still puts a massive smile on my face each time a song plays.

I went to a number of BBQs, including at Helium and Borelli's. But I tend to get overwhelmed by crowds and retreat to being a wallflower.
I would often post in political threads, but eventually realized others were smarter and made stronger arguments. I still pop in here to find new music.

I had a stroke almost 5 years ago that left me unable to play music, ride a bike or motorcycle. And now I have a nice stutter when I speak.
I still come here for the humor or inspiration, but I mostly try to comment in threads when I have something positive to contribute.

strontiumtom wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 11:26 am Hi!

I used to post as Tommy Alpha, but I forgot my password. So now I've got this name, but I haven't really posted at all.

Hi!

TOMMY!!!

I don't remember how I got here in oh four, oh five because I was a pickled drunk. I'm pretty sure it was to ask FM steve about recording school advice.

I left about eight years ago. Not in a pissy "I qUiT!" way, I just stopped posting.

There's a lot that happened in those eight years irrelevant to the PRF, a big part of it was getting my shit together, getting outside, getting in touch with nature, realizing I'd missed my calling... I don't think I've ever said this online but I've told my partner (three years in July!) that I think I should have applied myself and been a park ranger.

But I work in a government mail room now and I have an amazing partner who I'm proud of and brag about all the time.

I've lurked here for a couple years before signing back up and, eh, I'm still uneasy about posting again. I cringe a little remembering, you know... You know when you wake up the morning after a party you got real drunk at and you vaguely remember pissing everyone off? I feel like that a little.

So, hey, good to be back, good to see familiar names. I've actually hung out with some of you. I'm going to finish this episode of Sanford & Son and go to bed.

Goddamned Tigers lost to the fuckin' Astros tonight.